As Long as the Rivers Flow: A Last Summer Before Residential School Cree cultures and traditions

cultures and traditions

and assimilation

and Shirley Ida Williams

but as soon as she heads out on the land with her grandfather

As Long as the Rivers Flow: A Last Summer Before Residential School Cree cultures and traditionsAs Long as the Rivers Flow: A Last Summer Before Residential School is a poignant story for children about the joyous summer spent in northern Alberta in 1944. The story focuses on the daily routine of a ten year old Cree boy named Lawrence. His days are filled with family activities and personal adventures. At the beginning of summer Lawrence overhears the adults talking about how the children would have to attend a school far away and that this